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A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter!! I can't believe that there are still some people who read this thing!! Anyways, just to let all of you know, I am sick with something quite close to a sinus infection, and I came home early from school today, which is why I am updating. So……If something doesn't sound quite right, of if something doesn't work out in your head, let me know, but take into account that I AM sick, so give me a little bit of a break. Now, without further ado, the next chapter of Heaven's a Lie.
It didn't quite take us the full two hours to get to the next arena. As it turns out, Amy is quite the maniac behind the wheel, and we were there with half an hour to spare. Everything was a blur then, since I am so used to the way things are done in this business. It was every other arena that we went to. Unpack your things, go see who you're fighting, suit up, go and warm up for your match, go over match with partner, warm up again, wait for show to start, etc. Everything became a blur when you had done it so many times.
Kind of like drinking blood.
Sometimes you don't even realize that you're doing it until you've stopped. It's like your brain just goes on autopilot for a while and automatically starts to do things that you've done a hundred times before.
Amy was out talking to Trish about her doctor's appointment, when Jay came in to talk to me.
"Are you cool with all of the stuff that we talked about in our match tonight?" he asked me.
"Anything out of the usual?" I asked. He shook his head.
"Nah, you just have to take a huge bump off of a ladder, nothing you haven't done before." He said. I nodded.
"How am I taking the bump? Are you pushing me off, or what?" I asked.
"We're both going to be on opposite sides of the ladder, shoving at each other, and then you'll go up to the top step and reach for the belt. I'll sweep your legs from under you, you fall, I climb for the title and win." I nodded.
"Sounds fine." I said.
"We'd both better hope that nothing goes wrong though, too many things are at stake for this." He said.
"I know." I said. "It'll go off without a hitch, though, just wait and see." Jay smiled and patted me on the back.
"See you out there, man." He said. I waved at him and leaned over to finish tying up my boots.
Our match was the third match on the card for that night. Amy was sitting on the couch in the locker room, stuffing her face with some food from catering.
"Kiss for luck?" I asked her. She quickly swallowed the huge handful of Cheetos that she had stuffed into he mouth, and walked over to give me a peck on the cheek.
"Be careful," she said. I smiled.
"I'm always careful." I told her. She smiled back at me.
"Let's hope so." She said. I quickly turned and walked over to the guerilla position to wait for my signal to go.
"Alright, Chris, are you ready?" Jay yelled at me as he started to lay punches into me as we were fighting on the ladder.
"Let's do it," I yelled back, and punched him a little harder than I had intended to. He swung back and nearly lost his balance on the ladder, but managed to hold on. I quickly advanced to the final step of the ladder and started to reach for the title belt.
"Khalon…" a familiar voice whispered right in my ear. I swung around and looked for what or who had spoken my name, and wasn't paying attention to Jay. I was caught by surprise when he knocked my feet out from under me. I thought that I might have done a 180 on the ladder, and I was powerless to stop what happened next. My head smacked the corner of the top of the ladder, and I felt myself flying backwards. I saw Jay's horror-stricken face, and knew that the audience probably had the same look on their faces. I felt the blood begin to pour down my forehead, and then I felt the hardness of the mat behind me.
After all of that, I was not knocked unconscious, and other than my head, I didn't think that I had any major injuries. I could hear the audience's terrible silence. I could see Jay next to me with the trainer on his way. I could hear them yelling at me, and asking if I was okay. I tried to respond that I thought I was okay, but found that I couldn't move my lips to speak.
It was right about then that I realized that my injuries were more severe than I thought they were.
I heard Amy screaming, and then saw her appear by me, grasping my hand. She pushed my bloodstained hair away from my face and I could see that she was crying. I wanted to tell her that I was fine and that she shouldn't cry, but I still couldn't talk. I heard the trainers' trying to tell me what to do to show them that I was conscious and alive, but I couldn't answer any of their requests. All of the sounds that I could hear started to fade away to the background behind the voice that I was hearing in my head.
"Khalon…You can run, but you can't hide. I will find you and crush you, Khalon, don't think that I won't. You have seen my power…You know what I will do…" I heard. I knew that voice. I knew it all too well.
Knew it so much, that it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up just thinking about the possibility that the person might somehow still be alive and now be after me.
It was Jaeger's voice.